Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude the National Defense Service Medal

the National Defense Service Medal and the United Nations Korea Medal for his Korean War service

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2075" on the edge

125 mm in diameter

circumscribed by an inscription of “DER SENAT DER FREIEN UND HANSESTADT LÜBECK” (“THE SENATE OF THE FREE AND HANSEATIC CITY OF LÜBECK”)

Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross I Class, With Case, By Fritz Zimmermann GTRexclude the National Defense Service Medal(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse mit Etui). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse with a block hinge and banjo style pinback meeting a flat wire catch, the pinback maker marked with Prsidialkanzlei code 6 for